ASRock ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1150 Motherboards FATAL1TY Z97 KILLER

When you are building a new computer from scratch, you are often a gamer who wants the absolute highest performance available, or at the least, or perhaps a "tinkerer" who wants to build a powerful home computer at less price than a retail, pre-assembled unit. This motherboard hits a "sweet spot" in between performance and price. It is about 80-90% capable compared to the most recent technology available in mid-2017, but it costs far less than other fully "up-to-date" systems. It has performed admirably for me without any problems for a couple of months now, and the build quality and component quality appears to me to be no less than the most expensive boards I've purchased. And it does come with some nice features you might not expect on a board of its price range: onboard digital sound output via a fiber optic port, support for M.2 SSD modules, a somewhat "elegant" software support tool that handles installs of major software, updates, etc., and also testing, tweaking, and so forth. It uses the slightly older DDR3 RAM, but if you put 32Gb of RAM in it, an SSD (particularly the incredibly fast Samsung 850 PRO - 512GB - 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-7KE512BW), and then match it with an Intel i7-4790K processor and add a reasonable video card, you'll have a system that actually is very, very fast, more than capable for anyone other than bleeding edge gamers. And it will cost you a lot less because these components are mostly one generation old now.Let's face it: unless you are an avid gamer, there are, today, two major choke-points for performance, assuming a modern CPU is present: the hard drive and the video system. So, when you put an SSD (like the Samsung 850 referenced above) in your system and add even a *modest* video card, performance will soar. My last build, which I did two years ago, was all state-of-the-art, and I paid accordingly. This time, I built a system using this board for about half the price that performs roughly the same.So, all I can say is that you should first think about your needs. If you are a hard gamer, you will not even be reading this review, because this board does not support all the fancy gaming apparatuses and tops out at 32Gb of RAM. But if you are looking to build a fast performing home system at a reasonable cost, I can highly recommend this board as a quality component that will admirably fill the bill. Put the maximum 32Gb RAM in it, purchase the Intel i7 processor you want (note the processor MUST be a 1150 pin design), get a reasonable video card for about $100, and you'll have a very powerful home system that will work great and be usable for years. Five stars.Note:One shortcoming: this board does not come with Bluetooth or *wireless* networking standard (of course, it has an integrated, onboard Ethernet port). I purchased the extremely high quality and very inexpensive Fenvi Desktop WiFi 2.4G/5G & Bluetooth 4.0 300Mbps Module, 802.11 abgn, 2x2:2 Dual Band, 2T/2R Mini PCI-E Module Support windows 7, windows 8, windows 8.1, windows 10, linux, and that took care of both issues for only $17.

I have purchased three of these and no issues with failed parts. The boards are running fast with Intel i5 4690 with 8gb gskill ram. Has about a ten second boot time with SanDisk SSD and windows 7. My only complaint is the network card. No option to install driver only. You are forced to install a network manager. I was able to kill it and the service in msconfig manager. Would rather have a Realtek lan or Intel. Otherwise, all systems are working good and stable.

Likes:Good features for the money (eg. optical audio out, plenty of SATA 6 and USB 3.0 connectors)Looks good in case, with large red metallic heat sinks.Bios is nicely laid out and easy to use with tons of Over clocking features.Ram was easy to overclock, just set a preset memory profile in bios and saved and reboot.Cons:None.System built with motherboard:cpu: core I-7 4790ram: G.Skill Trident X 2400MHz 16GBvideo: MSI AMD Radeon R7 - 265, 2GB GDDR5case: Antec Onepower: RaidMax 730Wattmedia: LG 16X Blu-ray M-Disc BD burnerHDD 1:Samsung 250GB ssd EvoHDD 2:Seagate 3TB 7200rpmOS: Windows 7 professional This was my second z97 build, first was for personal use this one was for a niece who does video editing and was needing a faster pc. Like how fast everything was to put to together and the layout of the motherboard made cable management easy. No hiccups or problems everything worked out of the box. This is my first ASRock motherboard and I am pleased with the results.

The motherboard doesn't only look good, IT FEELS GOOD. This motherboard was perfect for my new updated PC build and runs great. Definitely worth the buy

Had a lot of trouble setting it up in win10 since none of the network drivers worked, don't have a cd-rom to install the drivers from there. Still having numlock on startup issues with and without fastboot on.It's a great looking board, the ASRock software is pretty useful, albeit a little on the ugly side, but they work well. Worth the money in my opinion, would be 5 stars if it was more win10 compatible out of the box

Seems to have all the features I need, but the board I got was messed up on arrival. It wasn't dead, but I kept getting weird blue screens, usb devices not working, etc. It all stopped after swapping out the board, so I have to assume it was the board's fault.

I am having problems with the built-in NIC on this board. the NIC is not reliable and will just shutdown and restart repeatedly. I have tried the firmware update and driver updates and even rolled back drivers. otherwise this board is a great board and is very fast and have not had any other issues. Somewhat disappointed with the issue though as it was one of the reasons I bought the board.

Alex computers did an amazing job shipping the mobo with the original io shield. The packaging was very tight and the board was in an ESD bag. 10/10. It booted up first try.

la placa tiene una validad excelente, asrock a cambiado muchísimo con el tiempo, tengo otros dos equipos montados con msi y gigabyte y la verdad que no tiene nada qie envidiarle a estas otras, una bios muy intuitiva y en español, multiples conexiones y fases de potencia, además de muchos usb 3.0, la siguiente placa que compre será asrock sin duda.

AsRock ist ja bekanntlich ein Tochterunternehmen von ASUS, sozusagen die Billigmarke. Für mich macht aber AsRock sogar die besseren und auf jeden Fall preisgünstigeren Boards. Das ist bereits das zweite AsRock Board, nach einen AMD Board bin ich vor 1,5 Jahren auf dieses Intel Board umgestiegen, da ich die Leistung eines I7-4790K für die Videobearbeitung brauchte.Das Board läuft bei mir seitdem einwandfrei ohne Ausfall. Inzwischen sind am Board drei SSD Laufwerke, es bleibt also alles kühl und ruhig.Alle Zusatzgeräte konnte ich am Board problemlos anschließen und alle haben auf Anhieb funktioniert. Ich habe keine Anpassungen, ausser bei der Bootreihenfolge machen müssen.Ein Highlight ist natürlich das BIOS, dass sehr umfangreich aber trotzdem recht übersichtlich ist und komplett auf Wunsch mit Maus bedienbar ist. Das geht auch mit der drahtlosen Maus und drahtlosen Tastatur, was nicht bei jedem Mainboard der Fall ist.Mit dem ganzen Zubehör ein rundum gelungenes Board, ich würde immer wieder zu AsRock greifen.

asrock gia' la marca mi soddisfa e ho' spesso preferito questa marca invece di altre perché molto valida e competitiva nei prezzi funziona in modo efficiente anche se da parte di asrock ci vorrebbe un po' di volonta' nell'aggiornamenti bios e driver ad ogni modo per me rimane ed e' perfetta cosi' come'

bought for my son everything fine

le port pcie principal s'il est maintenu en gen 3 peut ne pas marcher. En effet, a l'allumage, la carte graphique peut ne pas communiquer avec la carte mere mais apres extinction puis un deuxieme allumage, la connectivité peut refonctionner....et tout fonctionne alors parfaitement.....Pour resoudre ce probleme, Il faut alors le baisser a gen 2 dans le bios. donc on tourne en pcie 2 x 16..... Dommage